Motivational Quotes

Action

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

- Smith, Sydney

Best Quotes about Action

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

10.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

11.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

13.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

14.

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

15.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

16.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

17.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

18.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

20.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

21.

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

24.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

25.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

26.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

27.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

28.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

29.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

30.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

31.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

32.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

33.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

34.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

35.

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

36.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

37.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

38.

Action is character.

39.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

40.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

41.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

42.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

43.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

44.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

45.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

46.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

47.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

49.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

50.

Never confuse motion with action.